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Lethal Weapon 2

year 1989decade 80sdirector Richard Donnergenre Actiongenre Comedygenre Crimegenre Thriller

114 minutes

Cast

Selected cast credits · Film reference

Mel Gibson Martin Riggs
Danny Glover Roger Murtaugh
Joe Pesci Leo Getz
Joss Ackland Arjen Rudd
Derrick O'Connor Pieter Vorstedt
Patsy Kensit Rika van den Haas
Darlene Love Trish Murtaugh
Traci Wolfe Rianne Murtaugh
Steve Kahan Captain Murphy
Jenette Goldstein Meagan Shapiro
Dean Norris Tim Cavanaugh
Nestor Serrano Eddie Estaban
Grand L. Bush Jerry Collins
Jack McGee Carpenter

Lethal Weapon 2 | The Rewatchables

host Bill Simmonshost Chris Ryanhost Van Lathan
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Producer credits not yet identified.

Half-Assed Internet Research

Shane Black and the unused Play Dirty script; Grand Theft Auto 5 stilt-house homage

In the discussion (8)
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  • Material planned for Half-Assed Internet Research is moved up because the Shane Black subject had come up.
  • Superstar screenwriting arrived with Shane Black and then Joe Esther House with Basic Instinct in 92, after Hollywood began treating books and articles as IP, as when Robert Stigwood bought the New York magazine article that became Saturday Night Fever.
  • Shane Black wrote the Lethal Weapon 2 script, in which Riggs dies at the end, and has called it his best piece of writing.
  • The script, called Play Dirty, is not available online; its described version is a pretty different movie and outcome that would have been the perfect endpoint for Riggs, though probably not a popular sensation.
  • Not killing Riggs was a brilliant decision that allowed at least two more sequels, with a fifth possibly coming.
  • Black's version was reportedly really dark and bloody, with Riggs sacrificing his life for Murtaugh after a fight in a forest fire; two endings were filmed, and test audiences rejected the one where Riggs dies in Glover's arms.
  • Allegedly Play Dirty included a scene where a plane full of cocaine explodes over Los Angeles, dusting the city.
  • The only new research item: Grand Theft Auto 5 pays homage, with a protagonist pulling a house down off stilts after finding his wife cheating with a tennis coach.

Roger Ebert's review

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  • Roger Ebert gave the film three and a half stars.
  • Ebert is quoted calling it that rarity, a sequel with most of the same qualities as the original; the reply agrees and says it had better qualities than the original.

Most Rewatchable Scene

The toilet scene

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  • Some action movies are best joined 25 minutes in, like 48 hours or Die Hard, but this one should be joined from the opening credits.
  • The opening car chase shows Gibson running, placing him as the Usain Bold of actors in a final against Robert Patrick after Tom Cruise's semifinal loss; John David Washington, Snipes and Eddie Murphy are also named as good runners.
  • Station scenes are loved: the cops betting and the bet called off over the station wagon, and the rubbers gag.
  • The straitjacket shoulder-dislocation bet is a terrible example for impressionable teens, shows his athleticism and pain tolerance, and is Chekhov's shoulder dislocation because it returns when he is almost drowned.
  • The psychiatrist popping up is like Jimmy Cricket; if Riggs endures that pain for a bet, imagine what he will endure for something righteous.
  • The chili scene is not the most rewatchable but is really important for the Riggs character and why the movie is special.
  • Pesci arrives, followed by an evil 80s room-service guy with a mullet who is obviously a South African villain.
  • The pool drop is a great 80s stunt that ups the ante on the first movie's pool shootout.
  • The house-bust car chase and surfboard are among about four scenes with a beginning, middle, end and money shot.
  • The original trailer was just the toilet scene, and it worked.
  • The toilet bomb is one of the great action premises; he sat 12 to 18 hours, the smell is never addressed, and he noticed the bomb when reaching for toilet paper.
  • A complaint follows that this was going to be the speaker's most rewatchable scene and the romance is being taken out of it.
  • 'Guys like you don't die on toilets' is called one of the better lines, and Riggs refuses to leave.
  • The unspoken 'I love you' between the partners, said with the eyes, reminds a host of his dad; Shane Black 'just got it' and the leads play like a symphony.
  • The escape is ludicrous but set up so it seems possible; in reality they would have concussions and hearing issues, which was flagged as a nitpick.
  • Gibson breaking into the office ('it's the master race'), shooting the fish tank and 'pick them up with your hands' are loved.
  • Gibson's trailer getting shot up is a great action scene, and during the escape he asks what she is doing Saturday.
  • The underwater image of the dead girlfriend sticks in the brain like the head in Jaws.
  • Riggs yanks the stilt house down, a great pickup-truck ad; per a Premiere November 1989 breakdown it cost $500,000 and used a replica house.
  • The Gibson versus 'Adolf' fight and Glover's diplomatic immunity revocation close it out; one host has about 12 scenes.
  • Added: the drop cloth scene.
  • Added: 'They fuck you at the drive-thru', so good it was brought back with cell phones; it made one host averse to drive-thrus.
  • The toilet scene is named for most rewatchable, partly because it also has so many nitpicks.

What’s Aged the Best?

Rubber-plant condom joke; young Dean Norris and Nestor Serrano; blond Hitler-haired henchman; South African accents; Joss Ackland; Patsy Kensit; Eric Clapton soundtrack; decision not to kill Riggs; Pesci's introduction; nail guns

In the discussion (14)
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  • The condom material with the daughter paying off in the rubber-plant joke is classic cop humor.
  • Seen on cable as a kid, a dad laughed with his entire soul at the condom scene; the joke only made sense years later; a room full of cops is the right setting.
  • Young Dean Norris, with a little hair, and Nestor Serrano cruising around.
  • The bad guy with the blond Hitler hair; a wispy mustache would have been too on the nose.
  • The South African accents get special applause ('who is the dickhead now, eh?').
  • Asked why no South African accent was attempted, the reply is that South African is hard to do. — Chris Ryan
  • Joss Ackland, the Russian diplomat in Hunt for Red October, is good with a variety of accents.
  • Patsy Kensit does a great job, though notes follow about her character having no apparent culpability for working there; she looks great.
  • She faced a tough crowd in Michelle Pfeiffer's golden age, with Greta Scotchy and Meg Ryan also around; a high-school argument over Scotchy versus Kensit is recalled.
  • Kensit married Liam Gallagher and was originally a singer in a band.
  • The soundtrack: Eric Clapton does the guitar work and there is a George Harrison song.
  • The decision not to have Riggs die, financially.
  • The introduction of Pesci, like a microwave scorer off the bench, injects adrenaline and breaks into the Riggs-Murtaugh chemistry.
  • Nail guns: this was the first time seeing one, and with Snoop in The Wire nail guns aged really well.

What’s Aged the Worst?

'Nailed them both' pun; overlong love story; Donald Trump reference; Riggs's dive-and-roll bullet dodging; villains having killed Riggs's wife; rule-breaking police propaganda; Mel Gibson

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  • The nail-gun scene's shoehorned 'nailed them both' is the worst version of bad 80s action puns.
  • The love story runs maybe three minutes too long, though the movie is under two hours.
  • A random Donald Trump reference.
  • The number one choice: Riggs's bullet avoidance of diving and flipping, which would still get him shot, especially by a machine gun.
  • The South Africans having killed Riggs's wife is unneeded: the girlfriend's death is motivation enough to pull down the stilt house.
  • Agreement, likened to the New Jack City reveal that Nino Brown killed Scotty's mom.
  • Perhaps it gave Riggs closure, but the wife dying in a random accident on the one night he didn't drive her is more affecting.
  • The movie is classic propaganda: Riggs has no warrant and they break every policing rule now being reformed.
  • Mel Gibson himself, again: 'Why, Mel?', spoiling his other movies.
  • The wife-killing reveal could have been saved as the plot of Lethal Weapon 3.

Casting What-Ifs

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  • The original choice for Leo was Joey Pants, who had a conflict with The Last of the Finest; he would have been great.
  • DeVito was apparently also considered, but that doesn't work: too lovable.

The Joey Pants “That Guy” Award

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  • Joss Ackland wins, known by face from Hunt for Red October long before his name.
  • Special shout-out to Boggs from Shawshank, shot early by the South Africans, also in Aliens.
  • Jeanette Goldstein is the cop who dies on the diving board, also Edward Furlong's mother and Vasquez in Aliens.
  • All the cops could be called that guys: the curly-haired black cop is in Die Hard and another is in Babel.
  • Jack McKee, the construction worker at Murtaugh's house, competes most with Ackland; he is in The Paper and Rescue Me.

Recasting Couch

Leave it mostly alone; an 80s wrestler such as the Ultimate Warrior as a South African henchman

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  • The movie may not need touching; one South African bad guy could be someone recognisable, like an 80s wrestler such as the Ultimate Warrior.

Apex Mountain

Danny Glover; Richard Donner; Patsy Kensit; Evil South Africans; Houses on stilts; Ramses condoms; Diving board bombs; Varsity jackets

In the discussion (13)
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  • Gibson is still probably not at Apex; this movie let him do whatever he wanted in the 90s, but it is still Braveheart.
  • Glover: yes.
  • Theory: the movies aged Glover about 30 years in our subconscious although he was 43, taking him out of contention for roles he could have played. — Van Lathan
  • He has appeared in about 200 movies, around 100 since 2000.
  • Predator 2 was supposed to be his star turn, but Murtaugh is feeble and he got trapped by the character; Angels in the Outfield maybe broke out a little.
  • Richard Donner: probably yes; he owned the movie and won the battle for the franchise's soul over Shane Black's darker idea.
  • Patsy Kensit: obviously. Evil South Africans: gotta be. Houses on stilts: bad things happen in them, absolutely.
  • Ramsey's condoms: no better moment for the brand, though it had a run before Trojans overtook it; jokes follow about the pharaoh name.
  • Separated shoulders: this might be it, though Emmett Smith and Breeze coming back are raised as other cases.
  • Diving board bombs: definitely; the effect does not look CG.
  • Nail guns: no; Snoop in The Wire made them more important.
  • Mid-nits, a missed Apex Mountain item is raised; asked what it was, the answer is Bellflower, prompting mention of a separate movie called Bellflower.
  • Forgotten Apex pick: varsity jackets, an era started by Eddie Murphy with Riggs having his version; they look great, though hot to wear in LA.

Picking Nits

Helicopter shooting; not killing Riggs; 1989 condom ads; taking the girlfriend home; deep-sea fishing magazine; neglected dog

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  • In the opening helicopter scene the cops should just shoot at the blades.
  • For cops who break every rule, they weirdly respect diplomatic immunity.
  • Why not simply kill Riggs instead of a longer, escapable death; Taken does it too.
  • Answer: the boss wanted it done quietly because guests upstairs would hear shots, and they wanted to learn what he knew; it is half-explained, since a silencer was available.
  • Condom ads in 1989 are doubted and flagged.
  • Riggs takes his girlfriend back to her apartment after the shootout even though the South Africans know where she lives.
  • Riggs recognising the deep-sea fishing magazine issue makes no sense; Roger owns the boat and Riggs lives in a trailer watching the Three Stooges.
  • The dog is poorly cared for while Riggs lives at the Murtaughs', a trope discussed before; a pet-hotel vacation anecdote contrasts with 80s attitudes where a kid was paid $2 a day to feed the dog.

Sequel, Prequel, Limited Series, or All-Black Remake

Obviously not; hype-house prank spinoff next to the South African consulate

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  • As a 10-episode Netflix show: obviously not.
  • The Lethal Weapon TV series came and went.
  • If playing with the IP: a hype house with Logan and Jake pranking a South African consulate next door.

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Is diplomatic immunity real?; Could a truck pull down a house on stilts?

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  • Is diplomatic immunity a real thing or a movie device? A bit of online searching suggests it is not really, and extradition stories like a diplomat's wife's car accident in England are recalled.
  • Tangent: diplomatic immunity did not help Leangelo Ball in China, then third brothers such as the third Hemsworth, Daniel Baldwin and a third Franco.
  • Could a truck really pull down a house on stilts? Probably not, or earthquakes would destroy those homes.

Who Won the Movie?

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  • Joe Pesci won the movie: Riggs obviously wins, but the vote goes to Pesci like the Heisman vote that went to Charles Woodson over Peyton Manning. — Van Lathan
  • The time-out for saying Pesci was better here than in Goodfellas is raised again; the reply blames jet lag and regrets it.
  • Gibson is the right answer, but the title is vacated like Reggie Bush's, so there is no winner. — Chris Ryan
  • Pesci makes the movie; a joke follows about the vacated title going to Danny Glover.
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Spotify-library promo and ad reads for Adobe Firefly and Whole Foods, then a Ringer network mention, precede a Lethal Weapon 2 trailer cold open.
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Intro: Chris Ryan and Van Lathan are here; Lethal Weapon 1 was done with just two hosts, and 'the big guns' were brought in for the sequel.
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Lethal Weapon 2 is called a better movie than the first and one of the greatest sequels; a sequel Mount Rushmore is recited: Godfather 2 as the greatest, Terminator 2, Lethal Weapon 2, The Dark Knight, Aliens, Before Sunset and Empire Strikes Back.
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Asked about the Mount Rushmore, the answer is that Lethal Weapon 2 was not on it before this rewatch but is now, and is superior to the first in almost every way.
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The movie came out 32 years ago and basically perfected the 80s action movie, with no dead spots; so many rewatchable scenes were written down that 20 seemed possible.
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Glover and Gibson make a 1940s screwball comedy on top of a cop action movie, like two guys who have played in a jazz combo their whole lives; rewatches reveal unnoticed jokes.
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Gibson is praised as the ideal action star (everyman, athlete, funny, believable in fights), compared to LeBron playing hurt in the bubble; his later cancellation is suggested as why the movie is not discussed.
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A skit imagines Gibson requesting an apartheid subplot; the movie is weirdly anti-racist; it is an action comedy without a comedian, unlike Rush Hour or Beverly Hills Cop, and watching it feels a little sad.
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On a scale from one to OJ and The Naked Gun, the Gibson baggage is easy to forget; he was a borderline unicorn, doing everything Bruce Willis does in Die Hard plus more.
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Unlike 80s heroes driven by threats to family, the kitchen chili scene where Riggs tells the gold pin story to Darlene Love's character shows where Riggs comes from.
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The pen in that scene is heavy as Thor's hammer; the scene was rewatched three or four times; he keeps almost losing it as he flirts with moving on.
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The first 25 minutes are great before Pesci appears around minute 27.
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Pesci's pre-1989 career (Raging Bull, Easy Money with Rodney Dangerfield, the TV movie and series Half Nelson) is contrasted with the run that followed, from Betsy's Wedding and Goodfellas through My Cousin Vinny and Casino, all credited to this movie.
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A hot take that Pesci's performance here is superior to Goodfellas draws protest; it is argued that Goodfellas is one-note, then withdrawn as an 'expired' hot take after a scene is recalled.
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Pesci's part was not much on the page and the other actors up for it were not superstars; Pesci is the adjustable basketball hoop that Gibson and Glover play with. 48 Hrs is the most-watched action movie, but its sequel went the opposite way.
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Research in a 1989 Premiere magazine: Donner saw the film as Lethal Weapon 1.5.
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Donner wanted a continuation deepening the relationship, as an old married couple; Pesci as the toy became a blueprint for 30 years of action movies, with Chris Rock later cast as the new Pesci less successfully.
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The Goodfellas take is partly defended: Pesci says 'okay' eight times in the back seat before the drive-thru rant and is deep into a character he never played again; the 'old six shooter' hotel line.
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1989 box office: Batman, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Lethal Weapon 2 third-biggest, plus a long list of 1989 releases (Back to the Future 2, Ghostbusters 2, Driving Miss Daisy, Parenthood, When Harry Met Sally, Field of Dreams, Tango & Cash, Harlem Nights, Major League and more), perhaps 10 or 15 rewatchables.
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Asked whether it is age or whether they don't make them like this anymore, the answer is that they don't make movies like this anymore; less competition for attention and movies as the central cultural experience; a Premiere 1990 holiday preview listed about 20 movies.
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Tango & Cash is a delightful R-rated romp, a mutated baby of Lethal Weapon and Beverly Hills Cop; now every film must be IP and movies are marketing engines.
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The Tango & Cash pitch is 'accepted' as a resume for a future Rewatchables; asked, Producer Craig has not seen Tango and Cash; Carrie (Teri) Hatcher as Stallone's sister and Kurt Russell are recalled.
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The villains are raised now rather than saved for What's Aged the Best: South African Aryan bad guys, an evil leader, a henchman with a Hitler haircut, great accents, no nuance, unlike cool Hans Gruber.
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The villains' motives are simple: rich, want to be richer, ignore rules and are racist; Riggs is the opposite, a member of a black family, like a reverse Diff'rent Strokes; krugerrands called the original Bitcoin; like 40 Bond villains at once.
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The henchman was the one who killed Riggs's wife; there are no mixed feelings about them.
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South African racists were a one-and-done villain type in 80s action movies, called literally Apex Mountain for South African villains; ideology makes you double-hate them.
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The choice was touchy: the divestment movement and Sun City, product-placement companies not fully divested, siblings in college pushing divestment; Shane Black as the first rock-star screenwriter.
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Comparison to NBA players with business in China; the Red Dawn remake changed its villains from Chinese to North Korean because China is a huge market.
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Break announced before the categories; Carvana ad read.
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A planned Half-Assed Internet Research item is moved up: superstar screenwriting (Shane Black, Joe Eszterhas with Basic Instinct), Stigwood buying the article that became Saturday Night Fever, and Black calling his Lethal Weapon 2 script, in which Riggs dies, his best writing.
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Shane Black's script, called Play Dirty, is not available online; its described version would have capped the Riggs story, but keeping Riggs alive was a brilliant decision.
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The original was dark and bloody, with Riggs sacrificing himself for Murtaugh in a forest-fire fight; two endings were filmed and test audiences rejected Riggs dying in Glover's arms.
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Asked about killing Riggs, the reply is that not killing him was of course the right call; Iron Man 3 is called controversial but loved.
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An alleged Play Dirty scene has a cocaine-filled plane explode over Los Angeles; a New Year's party at Shane Black's house around 2018 featured mostly Iron Man 3 memorabilia.
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Budget $30 million, gross $227.9 million, and two more sequels in the 90s. Roger Ebert: three and a half stars, calling it a sequel with most of the original's qualities.
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Lethal Weapon 1 is more coherent on paper, since the South Africans operate with impunity behind diplomatic immunity; agreed as a fair point.
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Riggs settling into the family is what people love, including the condom commercial scene; followed by repeated 'Why, Mel?' laments about Gibson's racist remark.
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Most Rewatchable Scene begins: opening credits and car chase, Gibson's running compared with Robert Patrick, Tom Cruise, John David Washington, Snipes and Eddie Murphy.
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Station-wagon bet, straitjacket shoulder dislocation as Chekhov's shoulder, the psychiatrist as Jiminy Cricket.
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Questions for listeners: were 80s police departments liable for chase damage, and why were 80s cops so brilliantly sarcastic and knowledgeable (triangle trade, Eva Braun); Mark Fuhrman ended that narrative.
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Chili scene dialogue is replayed; judged not the most rewatchable but very important for Riggs.
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Pesci shows up; the obviously villainous 80s room-service guy; a slur used by the villains was repeated by kids until a mom stopped it.
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The hotel is identified as the original downtown JW (where the Standard is now), not Century City.
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Pool drop stunt, house-bust car chase and surfboard; the toilet scene was the original trailer.
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Toilet scene: great premise, 12-18 hours, smell never addressed, 'Guys like you don't die on toilets', Glover's 'I love you' with his eyes, realistic-looking escape, hearing issues flagged as a nitpick.
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Office confrontation ('it's the master race'), fish tank, 'pick them up with your hands', trailer shot up, 'what are you doing Saturday'.
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Palos Verdes scenery is praised when mentioned to Chris, who agrees; a cliffside kids' soccer game recalled.
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Underwater image of the dead girlfriend, the stilt house pulled down (replica house, $500,000, Premiere November 1989 breakdown), Gibson versus the henchman, diplomatic immunity revoked; around 12 scenes listed.
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Additions: the drop cloth scene and the 'they fuck you at the drive-thru' rant.
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Drive-thru rant analysis; the toilet scene named for most rewatchable because it also has so many nitpicks.
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Break announced; Intuit Enterprise Suite ad read.
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What's Aged the Best: rubber-plant condom joke, young Dean Norris and Nestor Serrano, the blond Hitler-haired villain, South African accents, Joss Ackland, Patsy Kensit, the Clapton/Harrison soundtrack, not killing Riggs, Pesci's introduction, nail guns.
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What's Aged the Worst: 'nailed them both' pun, overlong love story, a Donald Trump reference, dive-and-roll bullet dodging, the villains having killed Riggs's wife, police-rule propaganda, Mel Gibson.
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Casting What-Ifs: Joey Pants was the original choice for Leo but had a conflict; DeVito was considered and rejected as too lovable.
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That Guy: Joss Ackland, with shout-outs to other recognisable cops and Jack McKee (ASR).
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Overacting: the evil bad guy; Heat Check: Joe Pesci; Recasting Couch: leave it alone, maybe an 80s wrestler as a henchman.
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Half-Assed Internet Research: Grand Theft Auto 5 homage to the stilt house.
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Apex Mountain run from Gibson and Glover through Donner, Patsy Kensit, the South Africans, stilt houses, Ramses condoms, separated shoulders, diving-board bombs and nail guns.
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Picking Nits: helicopter blades, not killing Riggs, 1989 condom ads, taking the girlfriend home, a missed Apex item, the deep-sea fishing magazine.
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Nits continue: the magazine and the neglected dog; pet-hotel anecdote and 80s attitudes to pets.
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Netflix-remake question answered 'obviously not'; Probably Unanswerable Questions on diplomatic immunity, a LiAngelo Ball and third-brothers tangent, and the stilt-house physics.
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Memorabilia: the surfboard and the gold pin; later a hype-house IP idea and a forgotten Apex pick for varsity jackets.
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Who Won the Movie: Van picks Pesci; Chris has Gibson but vacates the title.
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Closing: Beverly Hills Cop 2 is teased as the next 80s action rewatch; thanks to Chris Ryan and Van Lathan; next week the show returns to the studio for the first time in 15 months.
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